Vows in the Black Orchard

When heiress Mara Veyne is forced into marriage with Cassian Vale, the feared heir to a criminal dynasty disguised as old money, she expects a gilded cage, a cold bed, and a husband who sees her as nothing more than a signature on a blood-soaked contract. Cassian is beautiful, ruthless, and impossible to read, with a reputation for burying enemies beneath the apple trees of his family’s remote estate. Mara enters Black Orchard Manor determined to survive him, uncover his secrets, and find a way back to the freedom stolen from her.

But Cassian’s cruelty hides a dangerous obsession, and his marriage to Mara is not the alliance everyone believes it to be. Beneath the estate’s candlelit halls and locked garden gates, Mara discovers her family has lied to her all her life, and Cassian may be the only man standing between her and a fate far worse than marriage. As desire becomes a weapon and trust becomes a battlefield, Mara must decide whether the monster she married is her captor, her protector, or the ruin she has been craving.